State Trooper Kills Wife, Self in Murder-Suicide Inside Supermarket

Mark Miscavish killed his wife, then himself, inside of County Market where she worked in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania.

Retired State Trooper Mark Miscavish

Mark Miscavish, a retired state trooper, killed his wife and then himself on Thursday inside of a supermarket in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, reports CBS Philly. Pennsylvania State Police Department spokeswoman Maria Finn said that the murder-suicide took place just days after the 51-year-old shooter’s wife, Tracie Miscavish, filed for divorce.

Investigators said that Miscavish went into County Market where his wife worked around 10 a.m. on Thursday with a gun and began searching for her. When he found Tracie in an upstairs office, he shot her dead and then himself.

According to court documents, the gunman had been previously arrested and was awaiting trial for simple assault, harassment and terroristic threats for threatening to do exactly what he did on Thursday. Days after his wife told him that she wanted to end their 30-year-marriage, an altercation between them on January 23 led to Miscavish pointing a gun at Tracie and threatening to kill the both of them. She managed to escape and immediately filed charges. On Thursday, Tracie was not so lucky.